“We have two totally opposite end of the spectrum experiences, but it’s really great to offer them under one roof,” Gable said.

Borgata sportsbooks: comparing spaces

There will be plenty of curious customers looking to check out Moneyline, especially when the NFL preseason gets underway on Aug. 1.

Others may prefer to stick with the more traditional wagering setting. Here are the highlights of the two spaces:

Race & Sports Book

100 seats with individual flat-screen monitors

10 betting windows

Kiosks available for horse racing bets

Video wall with screens to view live events

A completely nonsmoking atmosphere

Boot & Whip, an in-venue bar

Moneyline Bar & Book

A 40-foot wide by 11.5-foot tall LED video wall

144 seats

Self-betting kiosks

Full-service food and drink menu

17 additional 98-inch and 86-inch displays

Banquet seating in the VIP lounge

Six betting windows

NJ gaining upper handle on Nevada

The opening of Moneyline comes at a very exciting time in NJ sports betting history. Yes, celebrating year one of the first legal sports wager in the Garden State was a pretty big deal.

However, the bigger story was last week’s news that New Jersey took the sports betting crown from Nevada. We are talking a handleof $318,940,677 for NJ versus $317,380,281.69 for the Silver State.

The Borgata executive team knew the day would eventually come, just maybe not one year into the game.

Had somebody walked up to Glover on June 14 of last year with such a prediction, his likely response would’ve been: “I wouldn’t have thought that it would’ve happened that fast.

“I would have thought it inevitable that it would occur. It has taken off. We have a population density to really take advantage of an offering like sports wagering. “

Stepping up its NJ sports betting game

The opening of Moneyline puts Borgata on a level playing field with the rest of the NJ sports betting crowd.

It joined Harrah’s Atlantic City and Bally’s Atlantic City in unveiling new spaces during the prime season at the Jersey Shore. (Here is a comparison of the three sportsbooks.)

It’s no secretFanDuel Sportsbook and DraftKings Sportsbook are leadingthe pack. However, opening a new sportsbook and heavily promoting the new BorgataSports app are signs that Borgata is upping its ante.

“It’s funny,” Glover said. “Our permanent space wasn’t open. We had the Racebook somewhat masquerading as a sportsbook, probably in a more traditional fashion.

“I still think we held our own in land-based operation in terms of volume compared to the rest of the market where they had their permanent operation going.”

Borgata is now showing its full sports betting hand in which customers have multiple ways of placing bets.

Besides the two sportsbooks, there are PlayMGM sportsbook and the previously mentioned BorgataSports apps, which launched on May 14.

Glover has every reason to think that the Borgata sportsbook will be on a new trajectory come the fall.

“Now that we have our full complement of offerings, we feel very good about our circumstances heading into what we feel is going to be the most luminous time of the year in terms of betting transactions for us,” Glover said.

Bill Gelman is a veteran sports writer based just outside of Philadelphia and not too far from the Jersey Shore. Bill spends time in Atlantic City writing about casino openings and expansions, special events and world championship boxing at Boardwalk Hall. He is now adding NJ sports betting and online gambling to the mix.